Hi,

TLDR: wiki.php.net will be down for maintenance for about 15 minutes 
commencing Thursday April 23rd, 2026, from 13:00 UTC onwards.

Long form:

We're upgrading all our machines to a newer Debian (13), which will also 
have the benefit of having PHP 8.4 installed. Instead of upgrading 
existing machines, we are republishing each website property on a new 
VM, and this requires:

1. stopping the web server on the old machine
2. running a back up of the data (As things might have changed since the 
   nightly backup run)
3. restoring the backup on the new machine
4. switching DNS to the new machine, and wait

As an experiment, at the same time we are also switching to a different 
CDN provider for the wiki. This will not give any extra down time, and 
if it doesn't work out, changing back to our existing provider will not 
cause any downtime either, as the origin server won't be changing at the 
same time.

I will send an email here when the DNS switch has been accomplished, but 
it then might take some time with some ISPs for them to refresh their 
own caches.

If you encounter any problem afterwards, please file a ticket at 
https://github.com/php/infrastructure/issues using the "property: wiki" 
label.

cheers,
Derick

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